Thyroid Care - North Logan, UT
Hypothyroidism
Hyperthyroidism
The most common cause of hyperthyroidism is Grave’s disease. Grave’s disease is an autoimmune disease that stimulates the thyroid to overproduce thyroid hormones. Treatments for Grave’s disease include medications to suppress thyroid hormone production, radioactive iodine to destroy the thyroid, or surgery to remove the thyroid (total thyroidectomy). Once someone develops Grave’s they require lifelong help in managing their thyroid problem. Thyroid nodules are evaluated with an ultrasound and sometimes a needle biopsy.
Patients with a strong family history of thyroid cancer or a biopsy suggestive of thyroid cancer are taken to surgery for treatment and definitive diagnosis of their nodules. If cancer is diagnosed additional surgery (rare) and treatment with radioactive iodine may be given. The cure rate (survival) for a patient’s papillary and follicular carcinoma is high.
Parathyroid
Hyperparathyroidism is caused by a parathyroid adenoma, but can also occur from parathyroid hyperplasia (overgrowth of normal parathyroid cells). Parathyroid adenomas can occur as part of a Multiple Endocrine Neoplasm (MEN) type I and II (this is a rare condition). Parathyroid carcinoma can cause hyperparathyroidism. It is very rare. No one knows what causes these problems to develop.
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